After consulting the information, Lin Xu learned that the geography of this world is basically the same as that of the previous life.
But there are differences in some places.
For example, in Jiangsu Province during the Ning Dynasty, the capital city was not Jinling but Suzhou, but the capital city of Zhejiang Province was also Hangzhou.
Compared with other places, the industrial and commercial development in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is much better. There have even been sprouts of capitalism. They are the most prosperous regions in the country!
At the same time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces also have the heaviest taxes, contributing almost one-fifth of the country's fiscal revenue.
Liu Mingju served as the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the governor of Zhejiang, with military power and political power in his hands. Among all the governors, his weight was second only to the governor of Zhili who guarded the capital. With great power in his hands, he could be said to be a prominent frontier official!
His governor's palace was located in Hangzhou.
Jiangling County, where Lin Xu is located, belongs to Suzhou Prefecture. The fastest way to get to Hangzhou Prefecture from here is to take a boat across the Taihu Lake Waterway and then ride there on horseback.
If there are bandits in the mountains, there will be water bandits on the water.
Especially in Taihu Lake, due to the vast water area, there are many people who rely on the water to draw water. There are more than a dozen named water bandit gangs, and there are countless unknown small groups of water bandits!
Although Yang Peng was a personal guard of the Governor's Mansion, he did not dare to trust him in a dangerous place like Taihu Lake. After finding someone to deal with various gangs in advance, he boarded a merchant ship that had been waiting here for a long time.
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Otherwise, if some of the water bandits don't show off the favor of the Governor's Mansion, and they intercept the merchant ship when it passes midstream, and ask them if they want to eat wontons or hob noodles, that will be a big deal!
Moreover, if someone commits a murder in a place like this, even if the Governor's Mansion investigates it in the future, it may be difficult to find out which bandit is responsible!
This was the first time since Lin Xu was reborn into this world that he left Jiangling County, took a merchant ship, went down the waterway, and enjoyed the great rivers and mountains on both sides of the bank!
Standing on the bow of the ship, with the cool breeze blowing in front of him, and looking at the endless green water and the endless mountains, Lin Xu felt relaxed and happy, full of pride, and couldn't help but think of an old man's poem: The country is so beautiful that it attracts countless heroes to compete.
Bend back!
Yang Peng's advance planning really worked. Their journey was smooth and they didn't encounter any water bandits.
Three days later, they disembarked at the ferry and continued southward on horseback!
That afternoon, they passed through Linyang County under Hangzhou Prefecture and saw a scene that made Lin Xu incredible!
Hundreds of soldiers from the government are riding war horses, galloping across the endless fields!
It was the beginning of summer, and the rice seedlings had grown nearly half a meter high. However, those government soldiers rode war horses and trampled all the seedlings down!
At the edge of the field, hundreds of farmers gathered, including men and women, old and young. Some wanted to rush into the field to stop them, but were stopped by a row of government soldiers, while more people knelt on the ground.
, crying and begging for mercy!
"Sir! You can't step on the seedlings! You can't step on the seedlings!"
"Stop it!"
"Stop stepping on the seedlings! We will starve to death this year!"
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At this moment, a gray-haired old man suddenly got in through the gap that intercepted the soldiers, opened his hands, shouted loudly, and tried to stop the galloping horses with his own flesh and blood!
A soldier rushed towards the old man on horseback. Not only did he show no intention of slowing down, he actually whipped the horse hard on the butt!
The war horse let out a painful roar and hit the old man!
Seeing the war horse getting closer and closer, the old man's body trembled, but he did not move away. He just closed his eyes in pain.
"boom!"
The war horse hit the old man directly!
The old man's skinny body was knocked away like a fallen leaf and fell in the rice field. Before he could get up, another war horse galloped over and the horse's hoof collapsed directly on the old man! This chapter has been completed!